- Title: U.S.A.: DUKE ELLINGTON GIVEN A MUSICAL FUNERAL SERVICE.
- Date: 28th May 1974
- Summary: 1. GV EXT Cathedral with crowds outside (2 shots) 0.10 2. SV Count Basic arrives 0.15 3. SV Manhattan Borough President Sutton 0.17 4. CU Pearl Bailey speaking 0.30 5. CU Drummer Louis Belson speaks 0.48 6. SV Coffin carried into cathedral 0.53 7. SV INT Family seated 0.58 8. GV Clerics seated 1.03 9. SCU Ellington biographer Ray Dance reads eulogy 1.36 10. SV Altar (Congregation singing) 1.50 BELSEN: "You can't put any kind of a classification on him because he was the total. he was not only the greatest musician I met in my life, but he was the greatest humanitarian which is very important. He knew how to live, he knew how to love, and he knew what peace was." DANCE: "He was loved throughout the whole world by all members of society. By Greeks, by Germans, by English, by the Irish, by Arabs and Jews, by Europeans, by Indians, by Pakistanis, by atheists and devout Catholics -- even by communists and fascists alike. SO not only in this city, which as he said, he played many (INDISTINCT). Not even in this city can he claim exclusively for his own." Initials BB/1745 RJ/MR/BB/1757 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEW YORK, U.S.A.
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- Country: USA
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